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Migrants are welcome

It’s not by chance that we have chosen this square to start the No Expo Pride parade.
This square, so close to this station, is a symbol of departures, arrivals and journeys and for that it belongs to everyone.
Our journey has the purpose to create an inclusive and supportive network, in which everyone has the opportunity to cooperate.
In the last weeks, this place has been sadly exploited by media and involved in a cynical and racist blame game which gambles with migrants’ lives. Ignorance, annoyance and electoral campaigns have wiped out and overwhelmed solidarity and welcoming, leaving the heavy burden of the assistance on the shoulders of few volunteers.
It is emblematic that all this happens in the city which is hosting Expo, in the city that should be focused on food accessibility.
Corporations producing genetically modified and junk food, grabbing lands and promoting human exploitation, are here protagonists, the very grounds of Expo, while migrants are who this city has to hide and refuse.
Today and everyday, we choose the side we are on, proving it through our actions, through the variety and diversity of our bodies and thoughts, showing the imperfection of our lives and biographies.
We have chosen this square, once more, to affirm our rage and disgust for those who continuously deny fundamental human rights. We stay alongside the migrants asking for the acknowledgement of the rights of existence, dignity and citizenship.
We reclaim cities in which the authors of this marginalization and discrimination are repelled and rejected.
We reclaim a city open to everyone, open for people who need aid and for those who express creative differences; we reclaim a city open for people who run away from wars looking for a better life.
Fascists, racists, are those we exclude!
We are responsible for those wars: those wars come as a consequence of our wealth, of our richness. Those wars are our fault.
In this square and during our Pride, in every place we go and make alive, we will collect money and goods to support the migrants. We ask for your help to make another world possible.
Nobody’s a foreigner. Stay human.